Posts from ‘February, 2010’

Wow. Week 15. Soon we’ll be eating asparagus… This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was Peregion beans over wheat berries with spinach on the side. I picked up these beans at the Coventry Farmers Market. I probably created a scene in my excitement over finding local (really local) dried beans. Peregion beans are [...]

This week’s forage was short and close to home. The Fairfield Winter Market was canceled due to the snow and it was an off week for the New Haven Wooster Market. Thank goodness for New Morning Natural Foods, where I scored these local items: Pleasant Son (cow) cheese from Sankow’s Beaver Brook yogurt from Deerfield [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was beef stew. I’m loving cooking with the Dutch oven. I bought it to accompany my Julia Child cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, but find myself using it for meals that are neither French nor Dutch. It’s perfect for meals that begin with a sear [...]

I was back on the forage trail this week. I missed last week because I actually had a social event planned for a Saturday—will wonders never cease! One day, my dream of an after-hours (week night) Farmers Market will come true and I’ll have the choice of doing my grocery shopping in the middle of [...]

I found an interesting online tool called the Food Environmental Atlas that generates maps based on your criteria. In the Local Food category, this is the map for the Percent of Farms with Direct Sales (the darker colors represent a higher percentage). The next map is the Number of Farmers Markets. Again the darker the [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was pan-seared pork chops with peach salsa and oven-baked sweet and cranberry potatoes, all drawing inspiration from last week’s Northeast Feast. pork chops from Greyledge Farm (Ox Hollow) peach salsa from Kaela’s Kitchen (one of my hostess gifts and absolutely delicious-really woke up the chops!) sweet potato [...]

For me, being a locavore means I eat local food, but not only local food. I eat food as locally as possible. If something grows in CT, I get it from CT. If it doesn’t grow in CT, I’m open to getting it from its natural habitat. Coffee and chocolate come to mind. When I [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was The Northeast Locavore Feast!! Several of us from the northeast joined forces for a pot luck gathering at my home. The premise was simple: we all bring local dishes, we all eat, we all blog about it! (The original gang of seven was reduced to the [...]

This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal was Red Wine Braised Short Ribs and the recipe was locally sourced as well as the food! (The recipe is from Fine Cooking, which is published by Taunton Press, a local business.) I was faithful to the recipe, substituting ingredients only to favor local, seasonal fare. beef [...]